KEEPING HOPE ALIVE: A PREREQUISITE FOR A POSITIVE ACTION IN THE LIGHT OF RISALE-I NUR
Despondency and hopelessness have cast its dark clouds on humanity across globe in the modern period. Materialism and secularization have weakened and severed man’s fount of hope- faith in religion. However, action and more intensive and extensive actions have attained the symbol of modernism, but “the positive action for a better world” is yet to be defined and actualized in the contemporary world. World wars, Cold wars, Nuclearization, Environmental pollution, Ecological crisis, Militarization, Economic and social disparities do not speak of positive actions. Bediuzaman Said Nursi keeps up the hope alive in humans through his words – Risale- i- Nur and his life – lived through extreme pain, suffering, imprisonment, alienation and exile. True to the Qur’anic notion of cultivating faith in the Oneness of God and in the Day of Reward- Hereafter. Nursi expounds the Qur’anic theme of ‘the given in this world’ as a test which if appropriated positively could earn blessings for the doer. He
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